Participation and speech at the 23rd Development Forum
Professor Chrysostomos Stylios participates in the proceedings and events of the 23rd Development Forum which this year, due to travel restrictions because of t ...
Technical Progress Meeting
The New Metro technical progress meeting was held on the 26th of November, 2020 via the GoToMeeting web platform. The issues that were being discussed during t ...
Agriculture enters a new smart era
This year’s harvesting in vast Russia was for the first time assisted by autonomous combines equipped with the Cognitive Agro Pilot system. Over 160,000 hectare ...
Synopsis: Training needs analysis and future scenarios updated and contextualized at regional level
ForewordTHE NEWMETRO PROJECT IS AIMED AT DEFINING AND SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLED RESOURCES AND THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY 4.0 EFFORT ACROSS EUROPE, WITH A F ...
A hawk-like drone that flies long distances with less power
Drones have come to our lives in many aspects. However, their energy consumption and autonomy are still an issue to be dealt with in order to be applicable in m ...
Positive reinforcement for “teaching” robots
The first thing coming to our mind when talking about positive reinforcement is maybe dogs. Pavlov with his experiment with his homonymous dogs was o pioneer of ...
Just a click and… voilà! Your new house!
3-D printing still surprises us with its applications. It seems that there is no limit for such technology and makes our impossible dreams, possible. One of ...
“Who said I can’t walk?”
One of the major contributions of science is serving the humans’ needs. Disabilities make a person feel constrained and fully dependent to his closest people. H ...
The importance of training by Universal Robots
For Universal Robots, a Danish company specializing in automation and production of cobots, training has particular importance. For this reason, in 2017 ...
CIS launches two new courses in mechatronics
On Monday 21 September in Reggio Emilia (Italy) CIS, Unindustria Reggio Emilia's service company for business management, presented two innovative post-diploma ...
Problem solving: a key skill in Industry 4.0.
In industry 4.0, knowing how to identify an anomaly quickly is very important, because it allows to intervene promptly and, if necessary, to shut down the line, ...
Do we possibly live at the dawn of “robotic art” era?
Are we really ready to put the paintbrushes down and instruct robots to paint instead of us? A recent study in open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics ...